Every thought, every word, and every action leaves an imprint on our mind.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

The cave I live in is empty and so is my mind. I live simply and at ease.

The essence of meditation is not something complicated or exotic. It is simply taking a break from our habitual patterns.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks.

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

Sleep is the best meditation.

The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.

Our task is not to seek for love but to find all the barriers within ourselves that we have built against it.

The cultivation of loving-kindness has the power to transform enmity into amity, hostility into hospitality.

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.

The path to enlightenment is not a path at all. It is a realization that where you are is where you have always been.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Panic, anxiety, and stress are not obstacles to the practice. They are the path to wisdom and compassion.

We need the courage to learn from our experience and the wisdom to be willing to change and grow.

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.

Meditation is not about trying to change your experience; it's about changing your relationship to your experience.

The farther you enter into truth, the deeper it is.

The world is its own magic.

Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.

Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived, how well we have loved, how well we have learned to let go.

The practice of meditation is like tuning an instrument. Too tight, and the strings break. Too loose, and they won't play.

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

The practice of mindfulness is simply to bring awareness to what we are doing, what we are saying, and what we are thinking.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

The highest truth cannot be taught except through the conventional truth.

The time of the past becomes the present, the time of the present becomes the future, the time of the future becomes the present, and the time of the present becomes the past.